"I just don't like to fill up the oxygen with words": Maria Sharapova could become a commentator in the future

A potential career in commentary? Maria Sharapova believes she would be good at it after becoming a businesswoman and speaker when she retired from the sport.

Sharapova retired from professional tennis in 2020 due to a shoulder injury. Since then, she has been focusing on her personal life and became a mother in July last year.

Not one for the grand send offs like other players, she has attended tournaments instead to do speeches going to Montreal for the 2023 Canadian Open to speak to young female volunteers.

Using that context, she was recently on American actor Dax Shepard's podcast and believes she would make a good commentator because of the fact she is a concise speaker. She said also that she is good at making observations which would lean her towards that realm.

As well as doing due diligence before forming an opinion. As someone who went through retirement in the main just before the COVID era, it could yet be a pipeline for Sharapova in the future.

"I'm not someone that says a lot, I don't speak all the time just to speak. I'm more of an observer and when I'm confident, I wanna say what I feel like when I've done enough research about something, conviction in my thoughts when I say it," she said. "That's why I said that I could be a good commentator because I just don't like to fill up the oxygen with words."